Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-29
Chicago Bellies Sum.Baths.
HOW SOME PRETTY WOMEN SPEND FHE MORNING HOURS
AT HOME.

rom Cnlcex0 Mall.
The leaders Of society are never more beautiful
than at 10 o'clock a. m, when the men have gone
to business and the children to school, All sit in
the sun, back to the light and fairly luxuriate In
the golden Hood that streams about them. One
has flowing robe OF black satin de- Lyon made,
she said, from three old reception dresses ana
trimmed down the front with little ruf1es OF black
with one arm thrown about her head 10 tone down
the sunlight, and bronz' slippers with beaded toes
peep OUT rom her robe or press the satin fOotrest
avenue has her golden benediction at IL O'Clock
In black silk princess with q front bodice and
petticoat OF dotted violet, ribbed with narrow
the lace about her throat, and old gold bracelets
or antique pattern clasp her arms lust below the
elbow: The manicure artist is admitted and takes
chair at her knees. Before she gets her case OF
instruments open the maid enters the pariOr with
spirit lamp. small brass bowl cuJ-Xlass dish,
water bottle, and block OF lettuce SOAP The Lamp
Is III, the water heated and poured into the glass
dish, into which her pretty hand Is put 70 sOrten
the cuteie about the nails. The artistic spends an
she leaves madame is bundled up In a carriage
robe ana goes on for the fresh air.
Another lady Oh Michigan avenue takes the
morning sunshine In white corded silk wrapper
or the DirectOlre period, trimmed down the front
with double shell ruffie Of black and white
thread lace, and fastened at the throat with four
Diamonds fash In her tinted ears; and she has a
hand mirror, In which she studies herself until
solueuouy cdilS-tne DOCTOR, manicure. chr0pOdiSt.
modlste, metaphysicfan, artist or coiffurer, for
madame VIII wait On nobody--they must come to
me, she says The mirror is gem, picked up in
Paris long ago, and valued as a wedding tour
souvenir. IL Is a circle OF plate glass, 3 inches
in diameter, framed in ormoiu, Set with
small COINS OF gold mosaic Between ihe coins are
bits OF enamel, and the whsle Is frightened with
beads OF amethyst, India onyx, cameo, turquoise,
and garnet. The handle consists of q bamboo
suck linked and fretsed with ormolu. In the same
hand that holds the glass Is q dainty mystic web
OF lace perfumed with the oil OF rOseA and as she
lies back among the satin cushions OF her chair t
Is solving logarfthm to tell what fascinates the
mirror the woman, Of "the scent Of the roses that
hangs round the lace. She looks at her eyeashes,
her teeth and her brow; hunts for trace OF silver
about the beautiful temples; wonders II she IS
really getting wrinkles, and worries over blemfsh
or pimpe not larger than the head OF pin. II the
doctors time has passed, phone message is sent
for him. Seven days In the week this beautiful
woman may be found In the sunny corner OF her
sitting room studying her glass, but you must be
near or u dear friend TO get an entree.
3he postgraduate spends the hour after break.
last In pink and pearl flannel robe, with her hair
rolled In Phidian knot, and reads the morning
paper, quite as often lying on a couch with her
knees crossed as In a rOckfng-cha1r.